Apple Mail drag to Bear works intermittently

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  • Bear Version:2.4.5
  • OS Version: iPadOS 18.5
  • What were you doing: Dragging Apple Mail to Bear 2
  • What feature did you use: Drag email to Bear
  • What happened: Never get the green + button
  • What did you expect to happen: expected (and sometimes did) get the green + button and successfully dragged and dropped
  • The feature always works on Mac.
  • The feature works about 40% of the time on iPad.
  • I use Split View and implement the dragging from the list view of emails in Apple Mail.
  • If the drag and drop fails, I then have tested whether it’s Apple Mail by replacing Bear in the Split View with NotePlan, Notes, or Things-that always works as expected.
  • Since I don’t see anyone else having an issue with this, I have really tried hard to figure out if I’m not grabbing the mail correctly or if Bear is not in the right state to receive it. I always make sure I’m editing a note and I’m dropping it into a section of the note with other content above and below it.
  • I’m at a loss. Thoughts?
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I’m also experiencing the same issue on both iPadOS 18.5 and iOS 18.5
Bear Version is 2.4.5

The problem has existed for several months for me.

Like you, I drag and drop Apple Mail items to several other apps and they continue to work fine.

My workaround since first experiencing this issue has been to add a blank line where I wish to drag/drop the Apple Mail. This works best in split screen mode.

  • This was not previously the case
  • Nor is this the case for the other apps I drag/drop Apple Mail messages to.
  • It’s not perfect but gets the job done for me. :slightly_smiling_face:

FYI, The problem exists for other Drag/Drop compliant apps. E.g. I drag URLs for Apple Books items into Bear notes and I need to apply the same workaround.

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If the drop fails, I always add a blank line to ??maybe provide a better target? But it still fails more than it succeeds.

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Hello,

Oddly, we can never make drag&drop work from Apple Mail to Bear, and we don’t have a customer behavior for it like we have on macOS. Can you please send me a screenshot or a note reporting the result of a successful drop from Mail?

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Please see attached video recording. Strange indeed.
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